Many things... have become obscured.

The realities of the present must not be obscured by the burdens of the past.

Many things have become obscured in this trial.

These divisions, obscured by Saddam s totalitarianism, never went away.

The conclusion 44 percent of what BNDES finances is completely obscured.

But the good times obscured weaknesses in many other countries as well.

Unfortunately, Israel's illegal attempt at annexation of East Jerusalem has obscured this truth.

Then the news of a good answer will be obscured to them on that day , and they will not be able to ask one another .

Then the news of a good answer will be obscured to them on that day , and they will not be able to ask one another .

Such dire warnings have been obscured in recent years by headline grabbing GDP figures.

17. The relationship between the data in the document is obscured by the format.

The policy differences over America's Iraq adventure exacerbated the crisis, but also obscured its true cause.

This hidden code has been described as a method by which specific letters from the text can be selected to reveal an otherwise obscured message.

First, the moon passes through what's called the penumbra, where the sun's light is only partially obscured.

Mammography relies on differences in the appearance of the tumor from the background tissue, and we've seen that those differences can be obscured in a dense breast.

Mammography relies on differences in the appearance of the tumor from the background tissue, and we've seen that those differences can be obscured in a dense breast.

As a result, the spread of the Colombia Plan, despite its meager and ambivalent results, has remained obscured.

However, this original objective has been obscured by the sharp increase in the number of such coffee shops.

Even though the non Estonian population grew by 30 per cent, the differences between these peoples were obscured.

But those no votes have obscured the fact that 18 of the EU s 27 member states have ratified the treaty.

Of course, in this day and age, the trick is not to let each tree be obscured by that Bush in Washington that can get can get in the way.

This brought considerable relief to financial markets, and the resulting rally obscured underlying deterioration but that is unlikely to last much longer.

This area is considered an observational window as the normally obscured Galactic Center of the Milky Way is visible in this direction.

In both the United States and Europe, the costs of this constraint on policy has amplified the crisis and obscured the way out.

As the Earth is located within the dusty outer arms, there are large portions of the Milky Way that are obscured from view.

From this point, the window of the café is obscured to a point... of four and a half to five feet by steam.

During the next day, its eye became obscured after the mountains of New Caledonia affected Rewa's circulation by creating a hot and dry Foehn wind.

In acknowledging the efforts made to account for those persons missing after the Santa Cruz massacre, the Commission obscured the inadequacy of the Government apos s response.

But the heady glow of America s return to center stage in Asia has obscured key challenges in remaining the region s principal security anchor in the face of China s strategic ambitions.

This emphasis on the supply side (increasing access to energy fuel) has obscured cheaper and possibly more beneficial actions on the demand side (cutting energy consumption by changing people s behavior).

Ultimately, this is merely a new round of the eurozone s old game of financial hide and seek, whereby losses are obscured by distributing them among different institutions and time horizons.

Chinese Chan master Huangpo described the mind as without beginning and without form or limit while the defiled mind was that which was obscured by attachment to form and concepts.

This hypothesis was difficult to verify due to the observational difficulties of establishing what was happening inside a dense dark cloud that obscured all visible light emitted from within it.

The worst has been mitigated and obscured in the wealthy countries by running up unprecedented levels of debt, but any moderately streetwise person knows that the next generation and even the one after that will be paying for the excesses of the investment bankers.

But, while the government certainly should have acted faster and earlier, the public mood is turning to depression amid a cacophony of criticism and self doubt that has obscured the forward movement.

Had we appointed him ( Our messenger ) an angel , We assuredly had made him ( as ) a man ( that he might speak to men ) and ( thus ) obscured for them ( the truth ) they ( now ) obscure .

This will likely result in a gradual loss of economic competitiveness all the more dangerous for being obscured by the temporary boost from EU funds, which will help maintain the government s popular support.

In fact, the Chinese economy s true condition had long been obscured, but has now been exposed by more stringent regulation of activities such as speculative trading of the renminbi masquerading as trade payments.

Between 1970 and 1990, Western and South eastern Asia reduced their IMRs by approximately half (see figure VI). The Asian average of 57.2 per 1,000 live births has obscured wide divergences between countries.

Is it fair that the principle of States apos capacity to pay, which is the fundamental criterion of the apportionment of expenses, is undermined and obscured? Is it fair that some well to do countries should be underpaying at the expense of those facing serious economic hardships?

Our own Milky Way galaxy, where our Solar System belongs, is in many ways the best studied galaxy, although important parts of it are obscured from view in visible wavelengths by regions of cosmic dust.

In periods of relative calm, governments role in writing and upholding the rules by which markets function can become obscured. It may seem as if markets are on autopilot, with governments an inconvenience that is best avoided.

There are many topical aspects of the law of the sea and international fisheries that are worthy of our close attention, but their prominence is only obscured by our collective insistence on repeating the same things year after year.

He said O my people ! See ye if ( it be that ) I have a Clear Sign from my Lord , and that He hath sent Mercy unto me from His own presence , but that the Mercy hath been obscured from your sight ? shall we compel you to accept it when ye are averse to it ?

The war ended with Israeli forces 70 miles from Cairo, and less than 20 miles from Damascus, their success obscured by the shock of the surprise attack, emotional over reactions, and the difficulty of seeing clearly through the fog of war.